EMPIRE & UNHOLY EMPIRE PRESENTS
Fri
Aug
10
MARES OF THRACE, PILGRIM, PRIMITIVE WEAPONS, CHROME WAVES, LIKE RATS
Pilgrim, Primitive Weapons, Chrome Waves, Like Rats
Cobra Lounge
235 N. Ashland
Chicago, IL, 60607
9:00PM (event ends at 1:00 am)
This event is 21 and over

Two women from the north playing heavy noise
Like a burlap sack full of kittens being lowered into a woodchipper.
"Their names were Podagros (the fast), Lampon (the shining), Xanthos (the pale) and Deinos (the terrible). They were kept tethered to a bronze manger because they were wild; their madness being attributed to an unnatural diet of human flesh. They expelled fire when they breathed, they were man-eating, magnificent, wild, and uncontrollable."
From the hallowed halls of ancient tombs to the shimmering slopes of frozen mountain peaks, an archaic dirge resonates faintly and eternally— the lingering of a sound once so huge that it could be heard across oceans in distant lands. It was said that long ago, three men harvested the power of sonic amplification through arcane wizardry and dark bargainings with powerful demons, and that they used this power to create a band with powerful, heavy music unlike any that had ever been heard before.
This ancient fellowship is none other than the almighty PILGRIM, a three-piece doom metal band from Rhode Island, USA. With a mix of destruction, misery and beauty, these young disciples of doom blend a surprisingly original sword & sorcery feel with the classic chest-caving heaviness of the masters: Black Sabbath, Saint Vitus, Reverend Bizarre and Pentagram. Their thick walls of majestically darkened guitar, massive booming bass, and dangerously powerful yet calculated drumming lull listeners into an intense dream-like trance, abducting them to places they never knew were dwelling within their own minds.
The band formed in early 2010 and was built on the worship of "true doom metal". Krolg, the Slayer of Man (drums), Count Elric the Soothsayer (bass) and The Wizard (guitars and vocals) have set out on a holy pilgrimage of domination through amplification.
Tucked away high up in the US' New England coastline, you can find PILGRIM making their fabled pilgrimages to New York City to showcase their mysterious songwriting for shadowy un-lit rooms of coked-out metal-heads.
PILGRIM is a sonic documentation of the friendship of 3 young men inspired and awe-stricken by the dark sounds of traditional doom metal. Something sinister always seems to be following in their footsteps. Hear them soon, before it's too late…"
PROSTHETIC RECORDS has signed New York City-based PRIMITIVE WEAPONS. The spacey, doom-infused band's debut album, which was recorded at Wild Arctic Studios with Dean Baltolunis (American Nightmare, Goes Cube, The Hold Steady), will see a release this spring. The band previously released a 7″ produced by ex-Fudge Tunnel/Nailbomb member Alex Newport (Kylesa, The Mars Volta, At The Drive-In).
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MARES OF THRACE, PILGRIM, PRIMITIVE WEAPONS, CHROME WAVES, LIKE RATS with Pilgrim, Primitive Weapons, Chrome Waves, Like Rats
Friday, August 10 · 9:00PM at Cobra Lounge